When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarRead
Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
Interpretation
Embrace happiness in the present rather than waiting for a perfect future.
This quote emphasizes the importance of finding joy in the present moment rather than delaying happiness for some ideal situation that may never come. It encourages us to appreciate and cultivate our happiness now, suggesting that by doing so, we are better equipped to handle whatever the future brings.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage people to live in the moment.
When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
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When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?
A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Living with only the bare essentials has not only provided superficial benefits such as the pleasure of a tidy room or the simple ease of cleaning, it has also led to a more fundamental shift. It's given me a chance to think about what it really means to be happy.
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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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